[ixpmanager] BIRD 3 Support

[Nick Hilliard]

Richard Laager via ixpmanager wrote on 23/10/2025 21:32:
> Is BIRD 3 supported? I'm thinking not. If not, is there a timeline? Is 
> this a project that could use funding?
> 
> At MICE, we are seeing at least a couple of participants time out when 
> the BIRD update process happens. My assumption is that BIRD is getting 
> overwhelmed processing the configuration file. And since BIRD 2 is 
> single-threaded, that blocks everything, leading to BGP timeouts. Thus, 
> I am _assuming_ (without any testing or evidence) that BIRD 3 would help 
> with this.

Hi Richard,

We've been looking at bird3 from a distance, but I don't think it's 
ready for production yet.

What version of bird2 are you running? We have heard of session timeout 
issues with early versions, but nothing recently.

Nick